ken hatch
09-28-2016, 6:30 PM
Back in July I had rotator cuff repair on my right shoulder, of course my right hand is dominate. Long story shorter, I'm just now getting back in the shop, sharpening some iron and even piddling around with some small builds. One of the things I found out very quickly was I can't use my shoulder and arm to plane.
The good news is I have a secondary bench with enough leg below the stretcher to allow lowering by 100mm (4") bringing the height down to 800mm (31"). So now I have a joinery bench at 900mm (35") and a planing bench. Only problem the planing bench was against a wall and needed to be freestanding. What to do, what to do? Well I've been toying with the idea of shedding the jointer and maybe the table saw for some time. The table saw is used some but the jointer almost never, it defiantly does not earn its real estate. Bottom line I moved the jointer into the "tool room" to make room for the planing bench. BTW, if anyone in the Tucson area is looking for a good 8" jointer with a Bird head, I have one.
Of course in a shop with 10 lbs of stuff stuffed into a 5 lb shop if you move one thing every thing else must be moved. So everything has been taken apart and/or placed someplace new. It all kinda fits and feels pretty good, there is more room, I think, but until I finish putting it all back together and cleaning/picking up all the junk on the floor and off the benches I will not know for sure.
Here is a photo looking from working position of the joinery bench to the planing bench and out the door. Clean up to follow:
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh222/VTXAZ/shopFromJoineryBench160928_zpsctdiu7lo.jpg
ken
The good news is I have a secondary bench with enough leg below the stretcher to allow lowering by 100mm (4") bringing the height down to 800mm (31"). So now I have a joinery bench at 900mm (35") and a planing bench. Only problem the planing bench was against a wall and needed to be freestanding. What to do, what to do? Well I've been toying with the idea of shedding the jointer and maybe the table saw for some time. The table saw is used some but the jointer almost never, it defiantly does not earn its real estate. Bottom line I moved the jointer into the "tool room" to make room for the planing bench. BTW, if anyone in the Tucson area is looking for a good 8" jointer with a Bird head, I have one.
Of course in a shop with 10 lbs of stuff stuffed into a 5 lb shop if you move one thing every thing else must be moved. So everything has been taken apart and/or placed someplace new. It all kinda fits and feels pretty good, there is more room, I think, but until I finish putting it all back together and cleaning/picking up all the junk on the floor and off the benches I will not know for sure.
Here is a photo looking from working position of the joinery bench to the planing bench and out the door. Clean up to follow:
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh222/VTXAZ/shopFromJoineryBench160928_zpsctdiu7lo.jpg
ken